[zeromq-dev] Testing framework

[Ian Barber]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Staffan Gimåker <staffan at spotify.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Are there any plans to migrate libzmq to use a more fully-featured testing
> framework (e.g. googletest)? The current automake test system is a bit of a
> pain to work with since it's missing stuff like a nice way to group related
> tests, a standardized way to do fixtures, sensible messages from failed
> assertions, etc.
>
> Aside from an added (compile-time) dependency, are there any reasons why
> the automake way is preferable?
>
> /S
>

It's proved tricky to unit test, though there have been some attempts - if
you check the list archive you'll find a few discussions, Steve-o's is
probably the best summary of issues:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.network.zeromq.devel/11587

Ian
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